Behind the Christchurch terror attack last month and other events, has the been rising level of hate and incitement spread through social media and the internet.
"Governments are demanding action, holding inquiries and passing regulatory laws and technology companies are starting to take the problem more seriously," says Dr Andre Oboler, a leading international expert in online hate and extremism.
Dr Oboler, the CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, will present a seminar at South Bank campus on Wednesday, April 17. He says rather than just talking about it as a problem, there needs to be a shift in the national conversation to examine what can or should be done to prevent online hate and extremism.
Dr Andre Oboler is CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute and a Senior Lecturer at the La Trobe Law School. He has been researching, responding to and raising awareness of the problem of online hate in social media since 2007 and through OHPI since its establishment in 2012. He is an expert member of the Australian Government's delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a former co-chair for the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism and has previously spoken on this topic around the world as a Distinguished Visitor for the IEEE Computer Society.